Telecommunications in Hungary

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Telephones - main lines in use: 3,577,300 (2004) ^[1]

Telephones - mobile cellular: 11,000,000 (109%)(2008)

Telephone system:
General assessment: The telephone system has been modernized and is capable of satisfying all requests for telecommunication service.
Domestic: The system is Digitized and highly automated; trunk services are carried by fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay; a program for fiber-optic subscriber connections was initiated in 1996; heavy use is made of mobile cellular telephones.
International: Country code - 36; Hungary has fiber-optic cable connections with all neighboring countries; the international switch is in Budapest; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Inmarsat, 1 very small aperture terminal (VSAT) system of ground terminals.

Radio broadcast stations: AM 17, FM 57, shortwave 3 (1998)

Television broadcast stations: 35 (plus 161 low-power repeaters) (1995)

Internet country code: .hu

Internet hosts: 1,000,000 broadband (2007)

Internet users: 4.5 million (2006)

[edit] Broadband Internet access

ADSL appeared in Hungary in 2001, and ADSL2+ in late 2005.
The main broadband internet providers are: T-Home (formerly T-Com/T-Online/Matáv), Chello(UPC), Invitel, Externet, Emitel, Monortel, Pantel, TVnet, TvNetWork, VIVAnet, DIGI. Smaller providers mainly available in the city of Budapest, like TigerNet or HDSnet.
The number of the subscribers in Hungary has reached 1 million in January 2007.